Sundar Pichai says Google is far from the ‘end state’ of self-improving AI
THE SO WHAT
When a major lab CEO frames recursive self-improvement as “early days,” he’s telling you model and tooling volatility is a feature, not a bug, for the next few years. Roadmaps that assume stable capabilities or interfaces are mis-specified—build for continuous retraining and replacement as a norm.
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